Sustainability & Resilience
Sustainability and resilience are fundamental to everything civil engineers do.
As longtime ASCE leader and Houston Director of Public Works Carol Haddock, P.E., M.ASCE, said, “It’s not just about having resilient infrastructure. It’s about having resilient communities.”
![Project Highlight: Master plan expands development and ecological zones in Cyprus](jpg/3397fp850108%20copyjpg%20resizeda1f0.jpg)
New plan would double public waterfront, rewild canals, and rebuild dunes.
![ASCE signs agreement with NOAA to work toward climate-ready infrastructure](jpg/asce%20shield%20logod374.jpg)
ASCE has entered into an agreement with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration where NOAA will provide key science and product data that will be applied to building and civil engineering codes, standards, and best practice manuals developed by ASCE.
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In this ASCE Interchange Live, Priyanka Saha, civil and hydraulics lead for the RiverRenew project at Alexandria Renew Enterprises, discusses the major infrastructure initiative to create cleaner and healthier waterways in Alexandria, Virginia.
![Heartbroken for home: Pehlivan, civil engineers grapple with tragic earthquakes in Turkey and Syria](jpg/2023_turkey_earthquake_damage%20web%20horiz2c9a.jpg)
For Menzer Pehlivan, the echoes of the 1999 earthquake that shaped her life ring loudly this week.
![Major action needed to meet 2030 Sustainable Development Goal deadline](jpg/yusuf-onuk-eiy9axurspw-unsplash%20copy%20resizedc00e.jpg)
A National Academies report suggests steps to achieve key United Nations goals.
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![How sustainability became the norm](jpg/sustainability-resilience-topic-hero0b91.jpg)
In episode 135 of the ASCE Plot Points podcast, Antoinette Quagliata talks about how she's seen sustainabilty change over her career.
![Proving ground is part building, part landscape](jpg/80%20fast%20forward61ad.jpg)
The concept fuses design, engineering, technology, and nature.
![ASCE launches its first multidisciplinary, open-access journal](jpg/erugrul%20taciroglu%20web%20horizeeb8.jpg)
ASCE's first open-access journal, the ASCE OPEN, begins accepting submissions Jan. 4.
![Policy Briefing: White House promotes carbon reductions to meet net-zero goals](jpg/appolinary-kalashnikova-wyghtlym344-unsplash%20copy%20resized7526.jpg)
New initiative aims to accelerate innovations in five key climate sectors.
![Biogenic asphalt binder aims to drive down carbon in road construction](jpg/frederik-lower-tmugvn6bcae-unsplash%20copy%20resized1bd2.jpg)
Using plant-based components in asphalt binders can store carbon.